Anyone interested in quick information on UnitedHealth Group stock, take a look right here. You will find the most important numbers in UNH trading today, June 28, 2017, like where shares last closed, how the current stock price compares to recent highs and lows, UNH's dividend yield - plus some other must-know data on UnitedHealth Group shares. First, UNH shares closed down 0.28% or $0.52 from the day before. That brought the UnitedHealth Group stock closing price to $184.60. It's best to not only look at recent UnitedHealth Group share data, but also look at the year's highs and lows to see where the current price stacks up... The UnitedHealth Group stock price is above where it was last year at this time, with the stock price having gone up by 34.64%.

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The UnitedHealth Group stock price 52-week high is $188.66. That was hit on 6/22/2017. The UNH stock 52-week low is $132.39, reached on 9/12/2016. Also, this - UNH trading volume yesterday was 2,327,500. That's not quite as high as UnitedHealth Group stock's average daily trading volume of 2,682,752. Let's look at UnitedHealth Group's market cap, which is shares outstanding multiplied by UnitedHealth Group's share price. UnitedHealth Group has a market cap of 177,891,632,000. That means UnitedHealth Group has a large market cap, because it's between 10 billion and 200 billion. As of April 2016, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of UnitedHealth Group stock is 21.52. That's smaller than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare UNH to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of UNH is 8.03. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for UnitedHealth Group is 0.65. UnitedHealth Group stock has a dividend yield of 1.62%. When the dividend yield is over 2%, the stock is a good consideration for income investors. That yield is what most investors look for when hunting for dividend stocks. Money Morning gives you UnitedHealth Group stock news daily. We publish new info on UNH and dozens of other key companies we're watching now, every day, so investors will never miss an opportunity. As always, our content is free.

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